Last year, Professor Alex Schiller of Friedrich Schiller University and two of his students, Martin Elstner and Jörg Axthelm, announced that they had created a sugar-based molecular computer.

MENACE, the Matchbox Educable Noughts And Crosses Engine, is a fancy name for a machine that plays Tic-Tac-Toe. The concept is a product of Professor [Donald Mitchie]’s work in the 1960’s and was ...

The Tic-Tac-Toe Google Chrome extension describes itself as "Play in Tic-Tac-Toe" and when you click on the icon it will open a tic tac toe game in your browser. What it does not tell you, though, is ...

While strands of DNA may be able to pick fights with other strands, one thing that they can't do yet is play computer games -- that is, until now. In what appears to be an early proof-of-concept for ...

Students at the Bartlett Community Partnership School in Lowell proved to be no match for “Chris,” a virtual player programmed to be unstoppable in a computer version of tic-tac-toe. “We can’t beat ...

A DNA computer has been developed that can play tic-tac-toe against a human and never lose. The device uses a complex mixture of DNA strands and DNA-based enzymes to determine where it should place ...